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Human rights and growing veggies make a wonderful match
Maine-based Pine Root Farm is a woman-owned and woman-operated farm that recently built its second greenhouse. “Seven years ago, Ruby Nelson and her husband Gideon Knapp built everything from scratch”, says Emily Cai, who is currently working as an apprentice at the farm that has around 14 acres of fields and two, brand new greenhouses.
Before building the first greenhouse, Pine Root Farm’s vegetables were all grown on open fields. Pine Root Farms recently built its second greenhouse. “Ruby and I constructed it mostly just the two of us, with some help from Gideon. Luckily, Ruby had done some greenhouse building already, so with her experience, we were able to build it. When we were putting the plastic on, it’s recommended to do it with several people, but we managed to do it with just the three of us, despite the strong wind at the time. At one point I feared the plastic would become a sail and blow us al ....

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